Nope, i'm always on the hunt for stuff that is nicely isolated :)

Yeah all taken outdoors in the natural environament, the only "light bouncing" would be through the big diffuser on the speedlight on the camera. Inverse-square law is 'exaggerated' when doing

Flashgun and nothing behind the subject. Light falls off quick when the source is close to the subject :) But then I guess you know that already :)

Thanks, Ruben, I like the look too. Took a while to get a good base preset to apply in Lightroom but now I seem to be able to just run it and then do some final tweaks.

Thanks, glad you enjoyed them.

Nice work on the macro stuff Wes. As i always say, its not been a good macro session unless you have muddy or shitty knees.

Can't agree more. The frontrunner used to be Eclipse for sure, but that had turned into big pile of heaving bloatware when I last used it (probably about 5 years ago at least). I did go through a phase

STOP

Thanks!!

Thanks, glad you like it

These look cool. I'm about 15 hours into Odyssey now and enjoying it, although i keep getting my arse handed to me by bounty hunters. My tactic has now resorted to long range attacks and then running the

I think they could be called hy-deranged-a in this form.

Oil and water stuff is some of my favourite macro stuff to do indoors. Putting some coloured stuff behind the glass can get you some really cool results. I did some a few months ago here Might give you

Funny you should mention the Chiron, a mate of mine was doing that on facebook. He was detailing all the steps and then starting to have some issues and ended up going quiet. I wonder if he gave up!! :D

Yeah, LEGO like this is certainly a luxury that I wouldn't buy unless I had free disposable income. Freestyling is good. I have another small kit on the way which is quite a rare one but got it for a crazy

Thats not 6ft, it's 0.6 ft, so about 15 cm :)

Absolutely necessary. Not that everyone fully understands the potential consequences of not doing it, but if you don't understand, then listen to people who do and follow their advice. Don't be a dick

Nah, unfortunately not. It's a standard batman face under there.

Nah, won't dissuade me from posting in Lego. I'll drop the original part 2 in here when I've finished the build and then will probably drop the photography side of things somewhere else once that's done.